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⌈ Secret Post #1983 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Super Junior, Kim Heechul]

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[Big Love]

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[Hourou Musuko/Wandering Son]

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[Avengers]

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[Legend of Korra]

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[Legend of the Sun Knight / 吾命骑士]

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[Dexter]

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[Nicky Minaj: Starships]

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[FF12]

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[Discworld, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy]

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[Stephen King's It]

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[14 Nights]

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[Raising Hope]

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[Gangs of New York]

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[Tsuritama]

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[Disney's Brave]

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[Borderlands]

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[Legend of Korra]

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[Star Trek: DS9]

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[Spice World]

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[Glee]

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18. http://i.imgur.com/gNFZ8.png
[Borderlands]

Whole buncha big ugly guys and two pretty women. Typical.

I bet you're one of those people who bitch about having too many pretty boys lol.

Nope. I bitch about too many big, fat, ugly guys being presented as hot, most of the time.

Not that the guys in the secret are necessarily being presented as hot. But the women are obviously meant to be attractive, while the men don't have to be.

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(Anonymous) - 2012-06-08 00:42 (UTC) - Expand

ariakas - 2012-06-08 01:18 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2012-06-08 02:07 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2012-06-08 02:29 (UTC) - Expand

My thought was more: why has the artist clearly gone out of his way to make all of the male characters aged and grizzled, but both female characters look like blemishless, lineless dolls? Either they're using an entirely different art style for the women (which is just bizarre) or the women are meant to be 16 or something.

Well it's a video games..Women are always attractive or gamer bros won't like it.

The women are both alien hybrids with phasing and limited telekinetic powers. So. "Aliens did it."

ariakas - 2012-06-08 01:15 (UTC) - Expand

Yeah, sometimes it'd be cool for just one big, scarred bruiser to be a chick, for once.

auggie18 - 2012-06-08 18:13 (UTC) - Expand

But...they DO have a proper fandom. Maybe not fandom as you know it, but there's a huge community of people that love to play that game. Someone even used an original video from the developers to propose, ffs.

If you mean a fandom with fic and so on... there wasn't really a plot, or any character stories/development at all in the first game, doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would inspire lots of stories :/

BL2 sounds like it will though, to a degree, so yaaaay!

Haven't played this game yet. D:

/is shallow and finds the two female characters ridiculously attractive. Also the bottom right guy reminds me of Alistair from Dragon Age. Just saying.

Well, there goes my desire to play Bordlerlands. The guys look like grizzled FPS protagonists and the girls look like little dolls. That, uh, some thematic consistency right there, art director. I'm impressed by your vision and shocked - shocked - that you would make all of the men unattractive but the women very attractive. That is a bold and daring decision and I don't know how you came up with it.

Seriously, though, what's with always having the one woman out of four characters? Left 4 Dead (both games) did it, and now the new Far Cry is doing it. Why not two women? Or, dare I ask, three women? GoW3 had two, and are you telling me most games are less progressive than Gears of War?

Find me an FPS that isn't like that, though. Seriously.

Also, baby steps. As in, I'd prefer a game with one female character to a game with none.

Find me an FPS that isn't like that, though. Seriously.

I already pointed out that Gears of War 3 had two. (Technically, a 3PS, I realize.) But R6V2 also had two, one of whom was the protagonist.

As in, I'd prefer a game with one female character to a game with none.

I disagree wholeheartedly. I would rather play a game with no female characters than a token who looks like a 12-year-old girl and whose design was clearly meant to pander. R6V2 had a tough-looking woman with a realistic hairstyle wearing the same swat gear as everyone else and the same age as the male characters. If GoW3 and a goddamn Tom Clancy game can do it, there is no reason not to expect it of other games.

Also, apparently Dead Island has two female characters (thanks, anon below).

So yeah, no reason not to expect it.

Sexist, but true: the sole reason female PCs exist at all is to appease we female gamers. Busty NPCs fill the sexytimes requirement, but the target demographic of male 16-30 has no interest in playing a woman, if they have a choice, and if they have to play "the bitch," they're at least going to demand tits and ass as a consolation prize.

the target demographic of male 16-30 has no interest in playing a woman, if they have a choice

The ardent devotees, both male and female, of fem!Shep make that statement demonstrably untrue. Also, a shitton of the guys I play R6V2 with choose fem!Bishop and you can't even see T&A under all that flak armor.

So try again.

I dunno about this. It's not like male players had to make, say, Tomb Raider a wild success, and that franchise was certainly not made with female players in mind.

Dead Island had two women. One is Chinese and the other is Aboriginal. Both are badass.

I did not know that. Guess I'm going to have to pick up Dead Island!

(Anonymous) - 2012-06-08 03:50 (UTC) - Expand

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ariakas - 2012-06-08 09:35 (UTC) - Expand

ariakas - 2012-06-08 11:05 (UTC) - Expand

So, you're going to base your decision to play it on its looks? Why don't you read a little more into the story and game mechanics of Borderlands first? Lilith is supposed to look pretty. She's a Siren. A rare breed of humans that have alien technology implanted in them, hence why she can do special moves. She's also an assassin who no doubt uses what she's got as a weapon. And her clothing really isn't that bad compared to other games out there. It looks normal.

Oh man, can I just, like, hug you? I'm just glad someone on this thread has actually played the friggin' game, and knows better than to judge it by its outward appearance when there's so much more to it. Thank you

Oh boy, fluff to justify making the one female character look porcelain while the male characters look grizzled! I sure am swayed.

Maybe if they had another female character, who was also grizzled, you know, for contrast...

terabient - 2012-06-08 23:01 (UTC) - Expand

I find it more than a little irritating that you say "less progressive than Gears of War" as if there is something wrong with those games. Not only are they good ass games, but the GOW team actually does pay attention to their female fan base. Women are included without being made to look weak or being unrealistically dressed for war.

Btw, there are way more than 2 bad ass women in those games/stories.

All I really got out of Borderlands was, "I'm dancin'! I'm dancin'!" XD